Chapter 488: Chapter 384: Ideological Conflict_2

“Senior brother, what do you think forms human consciousness?”

Amidst the sparkling water, various pieces of information from social media platforms, news outlets, and communication apps flashed before Lin Xing.

#Latest Update on the Northern Plain# With such long-lasting chaos in the world, what is the government doing!? Why haven’t they annihilated the enemies of Mirror World yet?

The Safety Bureau spokesperson stated that more than a million tons of explosives had been deployed to the West Sea Battlefield, and the army had launched attacks on over 50 Spirit Caves in the area over the past month…

Dad! The New Country Army is about to strike here, we must move to East Sea City, reply immediately once you receive this.

Zhao Wanxi’s delicate feet dipped slightly into the sea surface, gently stirring it.

“Human consciousness is a reflection of the environment.”

“Different environments, different inflows of information, create different consciousnesses.”

“And meaningful discussion should involve transferring the information in one’s mind into another’s, to make oneself understood and even result in the other having similar thoughts.”

“So the more accurately one can output the information from their mind, the bigger the chance they have to persuade others…”

Lin Xing, following the trajectory of the bare feet entering the sea, seemed to witness the various quarrels on social media platforms and smiled slightly, “It seems like these are the insights from your online arguments over the years?”

Zhao Wanxi casually said, “Online, spraying others and being sprayed at is as normal as breathing.”

“But often, the most simple things contain the profound truths of the world.”

“I gradually understood the differences between consciousnesses through incessant arguments.”

“Just like different online communities, because they receive the same information daily, their views on the same subject tend to be closer.”

“Each person is shaped by the information they receive throughout their life.”

“The books you read from childhood, what you learned, which classes you took, your teachers’ words, your parents’ words, even an online video, a joke, a picture… all this information together ultimately shapes a person’s consciousness, affecting every choice they make in life.”

“Just like you and me at this moment.”

Suddenly, Zhao Wanxi’s submerged feet rose again, and the entire sea surface started shaking violently, eventually causing distant waves that resembled tsunamis.

“Senior brother, would you like to see the world I’ve seen over these years?”

In the oncoming tsunami waves appeared the survival of the fittest in Mirror World, the ongoing wars of the present, collapsing cities, fierce battles, and the cries of the common people… All these scenes composed Zhao Wanxi’s experiences.

From a childhood in the Zhao family of Mirror World to the chaotic world that began with the great change, the various pieces of information that Zhao Wanxi saw and heard quickly flashed before Lin Xing.

But Zhao Wanxi knew that with the senior brother’s cultivation, even a fleeting glimpse would seem like an incredibly long time to him, enough to see everything clearly and remember it firmly in his mind.

…

In the vision of a night-vision camera.

Zeng Li, tears covering his face, woke up from his bed.

He instinctively reached to the side but grasped only emptiness.

He immediately recalled that his wife and daughter had both died on the West Sea Battlefield.

Initially, sitting outside the battlefield hospital with their corpses, he didn’t feel agonizing pain, merely a surreal bewilderment.

As if the entire war, countless deaths, ruins everywhere, the smell of gunpowder at his nose, the scalding burns on his hands, the stiff bodies of his wife and daughter… all of it was just an illusion.

Until he awakened from his soaked pillow every deep night, repeatedly realizing he could never touch his wife’s soft body again, never smell his daughter’s sweet-scented hair, never hear their joyous laughter again… the pain surged like a tide.

He couldn’t continue living, death was his only escape.

But before finding relief, he still had things to do.

…

In the lens of a drone.

Zeng Li, lying on a cliff, aimed his sniper rifle at a Taoist appearing hundreds of meters away on a mountain trail.

Licking his cracked lips, he slowly took aim at the target.

Accompanied by a gunshot, splashes of blood burst from the Taoist’s body, turning him into a corpse on the ground.

Watching the Taoist fall, a flicker of excitement crossed Zeng Li’s face.

…

In the shaky camera footage.

A group of soldiers clad in camouflage were advancing through the mountains.

Suddenly, a terrible whistling sound came from behind.

“It’s Gang Qi! Spread out!”

Following a shout, the soldiers scattered into the surrounding woods.

But in the next moment, a golden figure flashed by, and a soldier was sent flying into the air, ultimately crashing to the ground with a thud.

Blood seeped from his collapsed chest as he twitched briefly before dying completely.

Amidst the intense gunfire and screams in the video, limbs and blood were everywhere, and the soldiers who had just been marching were now falling into pools of blood.

“A bunch of worthless creatures, you dare cause trouble in New Country with your minor learned skills?”

Finally, the golden figure stopped, grabbing a soldier by the neck and lifting him high, sneering, “Are you scared? Beg me…”